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Wednesday 26 April 2017

William Wordsworth: Two Lyrical Ballads / The Sun Sets On The Code of the West

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S&R - 107 - #04 | by Tavepong Pratoomwong

[Brighton, UK]
: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 19 April 2017

S&R - 107 - #04 | by Tavepong Pratoomwong

[Brighton, UK]: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 19 April 2017
 
S&R - 107 - #04 | by Tavepong Pratoomwong

[Brighton, UK]
: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 19 April 2017
The Sun Sets On The Code of the West

An awful lot they are
These descendants of Old Hrothgar
I know them, I lived among them as a boy
And I knew their father, Old Edgethrow
As an ageing boy  
Always feared everything foreign  
Devoted to Baldur Benedikt von Schirach, cousin to Scylding kings
In pubs recited Roman history while affecting mechanical nazi salute
Tubercular, the Scylding king's weakling sons

The Code of the West was so much bloody nonsense
All it ever was was Old Hrothgar talking your ear off
Trying to bum five bucks steal your wife or girlfriend
It never believed a word it said
This was its innocence
Behind its silken sad uncertain rustling curtains you heard it
The music, still and notwithstanding
The hibbing of those vipern lorke that quann
You'd never want to dream of having a drink with it
 

Tongue | by Tavepong Pratoomwong 
Tongue. New York.: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 24 October 2015

Tongue | by Tavepong Pratoomwong

 Tongue. New York.: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 24 October 2015

Tongue | by Tavepong Pratoomwong 
Tongue. New York.: photo by TAVEPONG PRATOOMWONG, 24 October 2015
 
2017-04-20_08-20-33 | by chrjs.0510

  2017-04-20_08-2033 [Dong Xuan Market, Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017
 
2017-04-20_08-20-33 | by chrjs.0510

  2017-04-20_08-2033 [Dong Xuan Market, Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017
 
2017-04-20_08-20-33 | by chrjs.0510

  2017-04-20_08-2033 [Dong Xuan Market, Hanoi]: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 March 2017
 
#04 | by titi.kittikorn

[Untitled]: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattananont, 18 April 2017
 
#04 | by titi.kittikorn

[Untitled]: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattananont, 18 April 2017
 
#04 | by titi.kittikorn

[Untitled]: photo by Sirawit Kuwawattananont, 18 April 2017
 
Untitled | by Larking About

[Untitled]: photo by Danielle Houghton, 21 April 2017
 
 William Wordsworth: Two Lyrical Ballads ("A slumber did my spirit seal" / "She dwelt among th' untrodden ways")

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Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) with cub: photo by Dave Pape, 2008

A slumber did my spirit seal,
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force
She neither hears nor sees
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees!
 
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): A slumber did my spirit seal, from Lyrical Ballads, 1800

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Semi-wild fell ponies, West Fell, 3km from Nether Row, Cumbria
: photo by Chris Eilbeck, 4 November 2007
 
She dwelt among th' untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love.

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Semi-wild fell ponies
: photo by Roy Wall, 8 May 2005
A Violet by a mossy stone
Half-hidden from the eye!
-- Fair, as a star when only one
Is shining in the sky!

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A herd of ponies near Roundhouse near to Mosedale, Cumbria: photo by Helen Wilkinson, 13 November 2007

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her Grave, and, Oh!
The difference to me!
 
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Ford and ponies, Hay Gill: photo by Bob Jenkins, 21 December 2005
 
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Fell ponies roaming free over the commons near Mungrisdale and Caldbeck: photo by Ann Hodgson, 13 August 2003
 
William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "She dwelt among th' untrodden ways", 1799, from Lyrical Ballads, 1800

"She dwelt among th' untrodden ways"
 

#Iraq A girl stands on a hill close to her home in eastern #Mosul. By @markodjurica @reuterspictures: image via Marko Djurica @markodjurica, 19 April 2017
 

#instantané Une fillette syrienne dans un camp situé à la frontière turco-syrienne, dimanche Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 24 April 2017
  
  
#Iraq An Iraqi woman carries a child in a street in the western part of Iraq's northern city of Mosul during #MosulOffensive Photo @tofsimon: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 April 2017


#Italy A child sits on the deck of the Malta-based NGO @moas_eu ship Phoenix as it arrives in Augusta. By @darrinzi @reuterspictures: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 25 April 2017



#India A child lies in a hammock made from salvaged material at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Chennai. @ArunsankarKrish: image @Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 April 2017


 Muslims pray during celebrations for Miraj-Ul-Alam (ascension to heaven) at Kashmir's main Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar. Photo @TauseefMUSTAFA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 April 2017


Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as a head priest displays a holy relic believed to be the hair from the beard of Prophet Mohammad, on Mehraj-u-Alam at the Hazratbal Shrine on the outskirts of Srinagar. Mehraj-u-Alam is believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Mohammad to heaven.: photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP, 25 April 2017
 

 
Kashmiri students gesture towards Indian government forces who fired a coloured water cannon in Srinagar's Lal Chowk. Photo @TauseefMUSTAFA: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 April 2017


#Venezuela An injured demonstrator is helped by another protester during a rally against Nicolás Maduro in #Caracas By Carlos Garcia Rawlins: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 22 April 2017


#Venezuela Protesters are seen carrying gasoline bombs on Wednesday in Caracas. @MeridithKohut for @nytimesphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 April 2017 


#NorthKorea Band members gather in Pyongyang to celebrate the birth anniversary of late founding leader Kim Il Sung. By @mayersINsg AP: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 23 April 2017


#NorthKorea A mass dance event in Pyongyang marks the 105th anniversary of the birth of founder Kim Il-sung. By @edwardesjones @AFPphoto: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 24 April 2017
 



#India An Indian tea vendor makes tea as a customer reads a newspaper at a roadside stall in New Delhi. Photo @sajjadkmr: image @Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 April 2017



#India A rickshaw rider takes a nap next to shuttered stores during a state-wide strike in support of farmers in Chennai. Photo @ArunsankarKrish: image @Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 25 April 2017

3 comments:

TC said...

Ivanka: diplomat (CNN)

Sandra said...

stupidity is everwhere...I wonder if it is worth talking about it..

TC said...

Well said and too right. I shall attempt to remember this wisdom henceforth.